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Originally Posted by le_dakine
Culverin,
What kind of copper pots are you using? are they Mauviels? Looks pretty quality.
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Busted. lols. I'm horrible with financial management, and I just blew $1800 on my set. I know it's not going to make me a better cook, but up until now, I've been using pots from Value Village and the plastic handle on my pots over open flame made a burning smell. That's all the excuse I needed.
They aren't Mauviel, the brand I got is Falk.
I did a couple weeks worth of research before I blew my money on it.
Why Falk instead of Mauviel or Borgeat?
- From what I've been reading, once you're at the high end 2.5mm copper cookware, there is not discernible difference in cooking quality.
- Bonding Ferrous metals (stainless to copper) isn't a normal process. Apparently, Falk is the company that the stainless-copper bonding for the other guys. I like defaulting my choices to the experts in a given field.
- The outside isn't polished copper, but rather a brushed finish. Apparently it cleans a little easier, and even when dirty, still looks good.
I've got some gripes with my set.
- One of my saucepans came with a small ding in it.
- The copper seems to have quickly turned a yellowish hue, less deep red copper, and closer to a yellowish brass. I'm not sure if that's normal, but I'm not liking it. Where it has contacted the flame, it has turned multi-color as if blowtorched, I think that's normal and I'm cool with it.
- The stainless inside isn't a super polished mirror finish. It's like this dull gray, almost matte finish. It does not scrub down and come away spotless, the insides seem to have some sort of staining or water mark like residue. It creeps me the heck out. I think it's just very odd.
However, despite those aesthetic issues, these pans are effin amazing. The heat up quickly, don't burn and are perfectly even. Performance-wise, I don't think I could really ask for more.
Before I contact Falk and sound like a total idiot, has anybody ever owned copper cookware? I'd like to hear some expert thoughts on this.